There are so many different types of specific software applications for the Nokia Internet Tablets, but there is one I have not come across of: Using the IT's as Digital Amateur Radio clients.

I understand the sparse presence of amateur radio operators in this community, but the potential is next to unlimited.

Before we go any farther with this idea, we need a sure idea if this device is capable of this type of operations. Digital Radio in the ham world is basically as I understand it to be pulses of sound that mean text characters that are transmitted over an amateur radio frequency. And obviously the sound pulses are received when listening on the air and translated into text. In order to control the actual transceiver there needs to be either a USB OTG connection to the rig directly or with an USB->Serial Adapter. Another method of control could be a bluetooth link since bluetooth changes frequency so quickly interference would not be an issue.

The easiest way of accomplishing this would be just porting a ham radio digital program to maemo.

I would undertake this project if it weren't for my lack of a tablet and more importantly the need for actual programing skills. I would rather just rewrite major portions of an existing port to fit the small screen better, use bluetooth, and actually play well with USB Host and the IT's sound interface.